Double Negation
The next confusional pattern is double negations or double negatives.
The mind finds it very difficult to actually deal with negatives because negations don't actually exist in the real world.
- the thing that you have to think about first is the car. Then you have to negate it and get rid of it.
Okay?
So if I tell you that "I don't have a car that doesn't work,".
- now you have to work twice as hard because there are two negations that you have to work in.
But if I tell you, "I can't not have a car that doesn't work any better than you can relax now."
Notice what just happened. Notice how you overload on all of those double negatives and trying to figure out what's going on so when the final message comes 'relax now' it slips right back in.
It's very difficult to resist it. That was just a five-second example of confusional language in action. It's a very powerful pattern so really practice it well.
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